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“Given this climate change or global warming, as we have seen over the last hundred years, the atmospheric water vapor pressure is increasing,” said Chu. “We have some evidence showing that we already have some increasing, very intense rain.” Coral reefs make up much of Hawaiis nearshore ocean ecosystem and are critical to the states economy. Hawaiis reefs protect populated shorelines from massive ocean swells and storm surges from tropical storms — a benefit the U.S. Geological Surve...

‘We’re at a tipping point with coal’: Q&A with Bloomberg’s Antha Williams Former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg was key in marshaling city and state governments across the U.S. to ramp up their climate action after the Trump administration pulled the country out of the Paris Agreement. With the climate-focused Biden administration now in office, Bloomberg Philanthropies is going “all-in toward climate solutions,” says Antha N. Williams, head of the foundation’s environment progr...

Hawaii Jockeys For Advantage In Bidens $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan - Honolulu Civil Beat Hawaii Jockeys For Advantage In Biden’s $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Local politicians, business leaders and labor organizers say Hawaii needs funds to reduce its dependence on petroleum, boost rail and improve wastewater systems. Reading time: 5 minutes. WASHINGTON — While it’s too early to know how much money might be headed Hawaii’s way should President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion American ...

An economic case for competing in the XPRIZE Rainforest contest (commentary) by Jonah Wittkamper on 1 March 2021 In 2019, XPRIZE Rainforest opened its doors and challenged the world to develop new biodiversity assessment technologies by offering a $10 million prize for the best one. In this commentary, Jonah Wittkamper, President of the Global Governance Philanthropy Network and co-founder of NEXUS, makes an economic argument for participating in the contest. Wittkamper says a great deal of va...

 E-Mail IMAGE: 3D seamless land-sea terrain showing lidar-derived ocean floor color (with water removed via models). view more  Credit: Greg Asner, Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science, Arizona State University A new study, published in Bioscience, considers the future of ecology, where technological advancement towards a multidimensional science will continue to fundamentally shift the way we view, explore, and conceptualize the natural world. The study, co-led by G...

Axis deer, a species native to India that were presented as a gift from Hong Kong to the king of Hawaii in 1868, have fed hunters and their families on the rural island of Molokai for generations.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Composite image showing just a small portion of the remarkable diversity of larval and juvenile fishes and invertebrates found living in surface slick nurseries along West Hawaii Island. view more  Credit: Larval photos: Jonathan Whitney (NOAA Fisheries), Slick photo: Joey Lecky (NOAA Fisheries). The open ocean is a harsh place for newborn fishes. From the minute larvae hatch from their eggs, their survival depends upon finding food and navigating ocean currents to thei...

Open ocean surface slicks serve as nurseries for dozens of fish species By (0) A composite image shows a small portion of the diversity of larval and juvenile fishes and invertebrates found living in surface slick nurseries along West Hawaii Island. Photo by Jonathan Whitney/Joey Lecky/NOAA Fisheries Feb. 4 (UPI) -- For newly hatched and juvenile fish, the open ocean can be a harsh environment. Upon hatching, young fish find themselves in a bewilder...

A team of researchers used an airborne mapping technique to survey living coral distribution across the main Hawaiian archipelago.

The Arizona State University Global Airborne Observatory on a coral reef mapping mission over the northern coast of Maui, Hawaii. (Center for Global Discovery and Conservation Science) (CN) — New technological advancements have allowed scientists to create detailed maps of the beautiful and highly endangered coral reefs of Hawaii, paving the way for important developments in conserving them. In a study published Monday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researcher...